March 2005 - Posts
According to this article in Businessweek , Japanese game developers are losing market share in the worldwide marketplace: By 2004 Japan's share had plummeted to 29% of the $10 billion U.S. market, according to brokerage Credit Suisse First Boston
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He’s saved the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom more times than we can count, and in the process saved a game company struggling to find itself in the American market. While we at Nomad Gamer normally award Legend status to a particular game, we
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I want everyone to know upfront I suck at driving games. The problem is I still love them. I can't get enough of screaming around the corner at 120 miles an hour without fear of killing myself. So when the PSP came out I HAD to have a driving game.
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Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade is one of the premier launch titles on the PSP. The only “Hack and Slash” debut title, Untold Legends has a look very similar to Sony's Champions of Norrath for PS2. During setup you can choose
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Late last night and early this morning I was in front of our local GameStop. I had been standing in line with a bunch of die hard gamers for about an hour. I was worn out by the long day and ready for bed. Then I was given a small white box by the manager
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A couple of weeks ago I expounded on comments made by the founder of EA Games, who said that MS will buy Nintendo within 5 years. I thought it was a stupid comment backed up by poor analysis. Nintendo has nothing really to offer MS. But, the larger point
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By day I write for this web site and hold down a full time job. By night, however, I travel to Paragon City, Rhode Island and become a Super Hero -- keeping the peace fighting thugs, super-villains and debt. Episode 7: The Villains we Love to Hate Level
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Once upon a time there was a world without video games. Gamers were devoid and without form. Then Magnavox and ATARI came down from the mount with consoles and said let their be video games. There was joy throughout the land as gamers played Pong day
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Apparently we'll be getting Tomb Raider for PSP and Xbox2. After a series of games that got worse and worse, not to mention two pretty awful movies (reportedly), they still think we geeks long for the pixelized Indy-wannabe hottie.
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By day I write for this web site and hold down a full time job. By night, however, I travel to Paragon City, Rhode Island and become a Super Hero -- keeping the peace fighting thugs, super-villains and debt. Episode 6: Burn, Baby, Burn! Well, I have made
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I'm a Gamespy junkie and I usually like there reviews. But lately it seems like 4 stars or better is the standard reward. I'd like to believe that all games that come out are great, but I somehow doubt it. Or rather I doubt that all games that
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1986. Mikhail Gorbachev had just ascended to power, Chernobyl had gone critical and Reagan was meeting with Gorbachev in Rejkavik. We were fighting a cold war. Who would have thought in this atmosphere the most popular game of the year and the most addictive
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Despite the lack of printer drivers I think I just got the reason to upgrade to Windows x64. AMD and Cryteck have developed a 64-bit version. It sounds like it comes in the form of patches to the licensed 32-bit copy of Far Cry. Hopefully, this will open
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By day I write for this web site and hold down a full time job. By night, however, I travel to Paragon City, Rhode Island and become a Super Hero -- keeping the peace fighting thugs, super-villains and debt. Episode 5: Everybody’s Purple to me Well,
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According to the movie geeks at Aint It Cool News , The Rock has signed on with the Doom movie. He's playing Sarge, which appears to be a supporting role since the star has to be your run of the mill Space Marine. The idiot talk backers clearly are
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By day I write for this web site and hold down a full time job. By night, however, I travel to Paragon City, Rhode Island and become a Super Hero -- keeping the peace fighting thugs, super-villains and debt. Episode 4: Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes.... When issue
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Large “ducks”, colorful keys, castles, a sword, a bat, a magnet, a chalice, a bridge and an Easter egg. This is an odd collection of things to be sure, but if you are a true gamer this combination should warm your heart. This odd collection
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